Scott Carpenter, the Mercury astronaut who, in 1962, became the second American to orbit the Earth, passed away at a Denver hospice last Thursday at age 88.
Mr. Carpenter had recently suffered a stroke.
Three months after John Glenn (who is now the last survivor of the Original 7 Mercury astronauts) became the first American to orbit the Earth, Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton was set to the next astronaut in orbit but was grounded by an irregular heartbeat, thus Mr. Carpenter (a Naval lieutenant commander at the time) got the call to go aboard Aurora 7.
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